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Metro Is
Big Boost
For 200 CA
Churches
by Frank Wm. White
LOS ANGELES (BP) — Some
churches developed a Sunday School
organization where none existed
before, others created new age group
departments while still others gained a
new spirit for their Sunday School
work.
But for all the 200 churches
participating in the Southern
California Metro Enrollment Training
Clinic, the week-long session brought a
boost in enrollment with a total gain of
(Continued on Page 11)
More Metro Stories, Statistics And Pictures Found On Pages 5 - 7
GETTING TOGETHER — Association-wide inspirational services like this one at Trinity Baptist Downey, Los Angeles
Association, brought together church workers and visiting team members in each of the eight associations involved in the
Southern California Sunday School Enrollment Training Clinic (Photo by Mark Wyatt)
March 7, 1985
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alifornia
Missionary
Pioneer Dies
FRESNO—B. N. Lummus, California Southern Baptists' first full-time
general missionary, died Saturday,
Mar. 2 in Fresno. He was 94.
A native of Cass County, TX,
Lummus was educated at Howard
Payne University and Southwestern
Seminary. He served as pastor of three
churches in Texas and three in
Oklahoma before his election as a
missionary in Oklahoma where he
served from 1933-39, during which time
he organized 28 churches.
He came to New Hope Baptist
Church, Madera, in 1942 to hold a
revival and was called as pastor and in
that same year he was elected to the
California Executive Board. In the fall
of 1942 he was elected missionary for
the entire state and he served in that
position until 1948 but by the time he
went back to the pastorate there had
been nine more missionaries added to
the staff.
During his tenure as missionary he
was instrumental in the organization
of 40 churches and averaged driving
25,000 miles a year. He also averaged
holding 20 revivals a year during the
time he was missionary in Oklahoma
and California.
He accepted the pastorate of First
Southern, Madera, in 1948 and served
(Continued on back Page)
SBC APPROVAL NEEDED
ACTS Fund Raising OK
HONORED—This picture of B. N.
Lummus, who died Mar. 2, was taken
Oct. 4, 1981 when Trinity Baptist
Church, Fresno, proclaimed B. N.
Lummus Day in celebration of his 91st
birthday (Oct. 2). For several years since
his retirement, Lummus has preached at
Trinity on the Sunday closest to his
birthday. He is holding a plaque
presented to him on the occasion.
Compiled from Baptist Press
NASHVILLE, TN - A three-year, $6-
million fund raising campaign to
finance the ACTS television network
has been approved by the Southern
Baptist Convention Executive
Committee but approval to borrow up to
$10 million for ten years has been
delayed.
In separate actions by the committee,
a legal brief opposing President
Reagan's appointment last year of an
ambassador to the Vatican was
endorsed and the committee voiced
opposition to a feature in Reagan's Tax
reform package which would reduce tax
deductions for charitable contributions.
The ACTS parent, SBC Radio and
Television Commission, had asked to
be allowed to conduct a special
solicitation drive to raise $12.5 million
to fund ACTS through fiscal 1986 and
for authority to borrow up to $10 million
with a 10-year maturity.
The recommendation to delay
approval of the total solicitation and
the loan while approving the shorter
term fund raising effort was made
following an all-day session with R-TV
Commission officials. Earlier R-TV
Commission trustees had approved the
action but the SBC Business and
Financial Plan required fund raising
campaigns by national agencies to be
approved by the Executive Committee.
In objecting to Reagan's proposal to
eliminate income tax deductions for
contributions to charity below two
percent of a taxpayer's adjusted gross
income the committee declared its
rejection of what it called "the
characterization of tax deductibility of
gifts to churches as the equivalent of
government subsidy."
Acknowledging what it described as
"the fiscal urgency which the national
deficit creates for the United States
Congress," the committee nevertheless
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Metro Is
Big Boost
For 200 CA
Churches
by Frank Wm. White
LOS ANGELES (BP) — Some
churches developed a Sunday School
organization where none existed
before, others created new age group
departments while still others gained a
new spirit for their Sunday School
work.
But for all the 200 churches
participating in the Southern
California Metro Enrollment Training
Clinic, the week-long session brought a
boost in enrollment with a total gain of
(Continued on Page 11)
More Metro Stories, Statistics And Pictures Found On Pages 5 - 7
GETTING TOGETHER — Association-wide inspirational services like this one at Trinity Baptist Downey, Los Angeles
Association, brought together church workers and visiting team members in each of the eight associations involved in the
Southern California Sunday School Enrollment Training Clinic (Photo by Mark Wyatt)
March 7, 1985
%«cl!lTCli IIlei «PC#Mifll'Brll Bcip%l5^%
alifornia
Missionary
Pioneer Dies
FRESNO—B. N. Lummus, California Southern Baptists' first full-time
general missionary, died Saturday,
Mar. 2 in Fresno. He was 94.
A native of Cass County, TX,
Lummus was educated at Howard
Payne University and Southwestern
Seminary. He served as pastor of three
churches in Texas and three in
Oklahoma before his election as a
missionary in Oklahoma where he
served from 1933-39, during which time
he organized 28 churches.
He came to New Hope Baptist
Church, Madera, in 1942 to hold a
revival and was called as pastor and in
that same year he was elected to the
California Executive Board. In the fall
of 1942 he was elected missionary for
the entire state and he served in that
position until 1948 but by the time he
went back to the pastorate there had
been nine more missionaries added to
the staff.
During his tenure as missionary he
was instrumental in the organization
of 40 churches and averaged driving
25,000 miles a year. He also averaged
holding 20 revivals a year during the
time he was missionary in Oklahoma
and California.
He accepted the pastorate of First
Southern, Madera, in 1948 and served
(Continued on back Page)
SBC APPROVAL NEEDED
ACTS Fund Raising OK
HONORED—This picture of B. N.
Lummus, who died Mar. 2, was taken
Oct. 4, 1981 when Trinity Baptist
Church, Fresno, proclaimed B. N.
Lummus Day in celebration of his 91st
birthday (Oct. 2). For several years since
his retirement, Lummus has preached at
Trinity on the Sunday closest to his
birthday. He is holding a plaque
presented to him on the occasion.
Compiled from Baptist Press
NASHVILLE, TN - A three-year, $6-
million fund raising campaign to
finance the ACTS television network
has been approved by the Southern
Baptist Convention Executive
Committee but approval to borrow up to
$10 million for ten years has been
delayed.
In separate actions by the committee,
a legal brief opposing President
Reagan's appointment last year of an
ambassador to the Vatican was
endorsed and the committee voiced
opposition to a feature in Reagan's Tax
reform package which would reduce tax
deductions for charitable contributions.
The ACTS parent, SBC Radio and
Television Commission, had asked to
be allowed to conduct a special
solicitation drive to raise $12.5 million
to fund ACTS through fiscal 1986 and
for authority to borrow up to $10 million
with a 10-year maturity.
The recommendation to delay
approval of the total solicitation and
the loan while approving the shorter
term fund raising effort was made
following an all-day session with R-TV
Commission officials. Earlier R-TV
Commission trustees had approved the
action but the SBC Business and
Financial Plan required fund raising
campaigns by national agencies to be
approved by the Executive Committee.
In objecting to Reagan's proposal to
eliminate income tax deductions for
contributions to charity below two
percent of a taxpayer's adjusted gross
income the committee declared its
rejection of what it called "the
characterization of tax deductibility of
gifts to churches as the equivalent of
government subsidy."
Acknowledging what it described as
"the fiscal urgency which the national
deficit creates for the United States
Congress," the committee nevertheless
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